I am wide-eyed over our recent DaddyBlogger.com traffic report! These are very exciting times for DaddyBlogger and our organization A Child's Right. I reviewed our traffic report on this blog and all I can say is THANK YOU! Thank you for all of you who have been visiting DaddyBlogger and for telling so many others about this blog.
We are averaging over 400 unique new visitors daily!! We are simply stunned at how DaddyBlogger has exploded in popularity. Our Technorati rank has increased so rapidly we, at first, thought maybe there was some type of error in the reporting. To have our rank with the millions and millions of blogs that are out there is truly an honor. So - thank you again - this has touched Robert and I so much.
Another happy update! We continue to receive an overwhelming number of new volunteer sign-ups at our organization's, A Child's Right, website. We are very thankful for all of you that help on a daily basis. Thank you for helping us protect a child's right to EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents after a divorce.
The EQUAL Parenting Bike Trek has exploded beyond anything we could have possibly dreamed of. Volunteers helped mail out over 1,000 postcards notifying organizations, people and the media of this incredible event/story.
The buzz on Blogs throughout the Internet continues to expand and we have an update of the Blogs that are covering this story with some of the highest ranked blogs in the world covering this. We are even receiving calls from the U.K., Australia, Canada and more wanting to help in anyway possible. We are so thankful to all of those bloggers who have chosen to cover this event. We also have over 11 formal media interviews coming up in the near future. It is very exciting to see the traditional media becoming increasingly interested in this event. My husband (Robert Pedersen) and Rob MacKenzie both have traditional media interviews on TV and the Radio coming up shortly. We also have "insider" information that USA Today is going to do a newspaper article on this!!! This is quite overwhelming in a very good way.
As you know our two cyclists will be welcomed at the August 18th, 2007 Washington, D.C. Rally by over 100,000 people. The number of people confirmed as attending this event continues to climb. It is hard to believe this Rally was born out of several of our Michigan based organizations putting their minds together. We are certainly becoming a political force and the first example of this was when Robert organized thousands of people to help with the election of a current Congressman. This was noted in a newspaper article. The article starts on the bottom left hand corner of the link provided. The Washington, D.C. Rally will certainly shock the nation and we are very positive of this. Robert has repeatedly told me how amazing it will feel to complete the over 600 miles on a bicycle and to be greeted in Washington, D.C. with the now confirmed count of slightly over 100,000 people.
A few other positive notes and past links we thought you might like:
1) My husband, Robert Pedersen, was recently mentioned in a new book that was published as being very influential in the children's rights movement. Here is a link to the book titled "Cheated". Robert is mentioned on page 7 of this book.
2) We have advertisements running in some Michigan newspapers, Google, and on the radio. If you have not already heard our radio ad when you visited this blog, you can listen to it here.
3) Robert and I are very excited to have a baby on the way!! This has been such an amazing feeling and we are both so very happy. Robert and I were friends for years before we dated and we met where I once worked as a Registered Nurse. We got married, not because we had to, but because we desired to and we conceived a baby while being married and we are very thankful that God has given us this relationship, marriage and now a child. I have seen Robert under the worst stress anyone could imagine and I have been amazed at how he handles all of this stress since the day his children were deprived of their God given right to EQUAL time with BOTH fit parents.
Robert has been so gentle and caring to all of my concerns that I sometimes have to remind him how incredible it is that he has made it through what many would consider to be hell and has come out of this stronger than ever before. We are still trying to recover from when he lost his job last year and we do not have a penny to our name but we are so happy. He keeps telling me that he is amazed by how happy a couple can be; having very few personal possessions and very little money. I tell him that we are so rich with love and supporting family and that some financially rich people never get to experience such things.
If you have not checked out the video he made for me you can here.
4) Our respect and friendship for Minister Ronald Smith and his wife continues to grow. We feel like there is an amazing connection between us as couples. Meeting Minister Smith and his wife will only make it clear to you how loving and dedicated his family is to this movement and children.
Recently, Robert and Lary Holland made a trip to Iowa and spent the night with 2008 Presidential Candidate Dr. Mark Klein and his staff. Robert was able to capture some quick video footage of Minister Smith giving a presentation at a rally for an Iowa organization and Dr. Mark Klein. This is a must watch video if you have not seen it yet.
Since we are talking about incredible videos you should also check out this one as well!
Remember this SOLID research fact from a FEMALE when watching this video:
Children who live absent their biological fathers are, on average, at least two to three times more likely to be poor, to use drugs, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems, to be victims of child abuse, and to engage in criminal behavior.
Source: McLanahan, Sara L. "Life without Father: What happens to the children?"
5) Our Squidoo Lens on the benefits of shared parenting and Michigan House Bill 4564 is now ranked #9 nationally in the politics category!! Be sure to check it out and to sign our guest-book as well.
6) Be sure to visit the DaddyBlogger picture gallery. A Child's Right is one of the official sponsors of the movie "Support?". You can view the trailers for this amazing movie on the left side bar of this blog. To view the new trailer click here!
7) Listen to Robert Pedersen and Carol Rhodes, author of "Friend of the Court Enemy of the Family" and former Calhoun County Child Support Enforcement Officer, discuss the shocking truth behind the Michigan child support system.
"We were ranked by how much money we brought in..." - Carol Rhodes
Nationally syndicated radio talk show KRights Radio with Richar Farr. Listen to the entire interview and you will be shocked at what you hear!
Thank you everyone for your continued support. We are humbled by all of you who read DaddyBlogger.com and by the tremendous growth of our organization.Robert continues to ask, obviously trying to avoid another court battle, for equal time with his children who live only 8 minutes away and within the same school district.
Angela Pedersen, R.N.
President and Co-Founder
A Child's Right
Robb MacKenzie and Robert Pedersen were interviewed by the now famous Ronald Smith on the nationwide Stardust Radio Network. They discussed the upcoming EQUAL Parenting Bike Trek and the benefits of shared parenting to children and parents. Also, the first half of the recorded radio interview has Lary Holland, whom many consider a national expert on Title IV-D. The entire hour of this recording you will find very informative and also entertaining. I heard several laughs in the last 30 minutes of the show.
